New Developments in Private International in East Asia 4 and 7 May 2021

Speakers and Moderators

Harald Baum

Senior Research and Head of the Centre of Excellence for Japan at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Professor at the ; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels; Vice- president of the German-Japanese Association of Jurists; Founding Editor of the Journal of Japanese Law. Born 13 May 1952 in Hamburg, Legal Studies in Hamburg and Freiburg, Admittance to the Bar (Hamburg, 1981), Hamburg (1984), since 1985 Research Fellow at the Institute; Research stays at the U.C. Berkeley (1989/90) and the Univ. Kyoto (1990/91); (Professorial Dissertation () Hamburg (2004).

Weizuo Chen

Dr. iur. (Saarland University), of (Wuhan University). Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Private International Law and Comparative Law at Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing. Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for German, European and International Family Law, University of Bonn (2019) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (2012- 2014). Visiting professor at the Hague Academy of International Law 2012 (Special Course in La nouvelle codification du droit international privé chinois, published in: Recueil des Cours, tome 359, 2013, pp. 87- 284). Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law.

Xiangshun Ding

Professor of Law at Renmin University of China and also serves as Deputy President of the China Comparative Law Society. Ding obtained Bachelor and Master Degrees in law from Jilin University, and a Ph.D. Degree in law from Renmin University of China Law School in 2000. He also earned a Master Degree (LL.M.) and a Doctoral Degree (S.J.D.)from Indiana University McKinney School of Law.Ding has been a visiting scholar at prestigious law schools in Japan and America, including , where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Ding’s teaching career started in 1995 at Jilin University Law School and has continued at Renmin Law School since 2000. He has also taught courses of Comparative Law at numerous top law schools in Japan, U.S.A. and at University of Geneva Faculty of Law in Swizerland. Ding has published numerous academic articles relating to comparative studies in China, Japan, and the in Chinese, Japanese and English.

Dr Gérardine Goh Escolar Gérardine Goh Escolar is First Secretary at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Her portfolios span family law and child protection, and international commercial and financial law. In family law and child protection, she has primary responsibility over the 1980 Child Abduction Convention, the 1996 Child Protection Convention, and the project on Family Agreements involving Children, as well as joint primary responsibility over the International Hague Network of . In international commercial and financial law, she has primary responsibility over the 1985 Trusts and 2007 Securities Conventions, as well as developments with respect to the private international law implications of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and other aspects of the digital economy. Dr Goh Escolar was previously in practice, acting as counsel, and consultant in international litigation and arbitration proceedings, first with a specialist international law boutique, and then with a top- tier global law firm headquartered in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Prior to that, she was Legal Advisor to the President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and principal legal officer in the chambers of a at the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. She has also served as legal officer in the service of the government of Germany, in-house counsel at a technology company, and vice-president of external relations at an information technology startup.

Jin Huang

Doctor of Law (Wuhan University), Doctorat honoris causa (Université de Montréal). Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, since 2009, previously at Wuhan University Institute of International law in 1984-2009. Guest Professor at Universitat des Saarlandes in Germany in 2000, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Yale Law School in 1993-94, Visiting Scholar at Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne in 1986-87, an attendee at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1986. President, Chinese Society of International Law; President, China Society of Private International Law; Vice President, China Law Society; Vice Chairman, China Foundation For Human Rights Development. Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA, 2017-23); Titular Member, International Academy of Comparative Law since 2013； Member, International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of China since 2018. Arbitrator, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS, 2000-14), the ICSID (2004-16), The International Arbitration Chamber of Paris (CAIP), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) and the CIETAC. Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Yearbook of Private International Law and Comparative Law (CSPIL); Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford); Member of the Advisory Board of the Yearbook of Private International Law (Sellier and Stæmpfli). Academic specialties include of international law, private international law, international arbitration, state immunity, international commercial law, inter-regional conflict of laws.

Béatrice Jaluzot

Tenured associate professor with habilitation in private Law at Lyon Institute for political studies ; Director of Lyon Institute for East Asian Studies (joint research center supported by the CNRS). My field of research is Japanese law and comparative private law, especially issues on legal history and contemporary private law reform. My current research explores the unfair treaties concluded between Japan and Western countries during the 19th century. Recent articles: "La réforme du droit des contrats au Japon", Revue des Contrats, 2018/4, pp. 619- 631 ; "La pensée juridique de Ume Kenjirō, 'père du code civil japonais' ", in C. Guérin-Bargues; H. Yamamoto (dir.), in: Aux sources nouvelles du droit. Regards comparés français-japonais, Mare et Martin, coll. Droit public, Paris, déc. 2018, p. 47-61. I was an invited scholar at Tokyo University, Kobe University, Gakushuin University, Osaka University, Fukuoka University and the Max Planck Institute for International Private and Comparative Law

Fabienne Jault-Seseke

Professeur à l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (Paris Saclay) et membre du DANTE. Elle est spécialiste de droit international privé. Elle assure la responsabilité du Master Droit international et européen des affaires dans la Law School de Paris Saclay. Elle co-préside l’association Trans Experts.

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer is a Vice Director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. She is also on the faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern and is an adjunct instructor at the Universities of Basel and Bern. Krista’s teaching and research centers on international economic law, teaching international investment law and World Trade Organization law courses at several law faculties in Switzerland as well as at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She is the author of a textbook on international investment law and has published numerous articles on investment and trade topics. Krista has also developed courses in areas of general international law, regularly teaching on sustainable health governance, the international financial architecture, international law principles on fair allocation of resources, international treaty law, international poverty law, and the law on sustainable use of natural resources. She has led seminars on positive duties of states, legal topics related to tobacco, and the law of body modification. Dr. Nadakavukaren is a native of the United States. She received her from Georgetown University Law School, and her doctorate and Habilitation from the University of Bern. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law, having served as Secretary of the Society for three years, is an editor of Hart Publishing’s series Studies in International Trade and Investment Law, and is on the Editorial Board of the Brill series World Trade Institute Advanced Studies.

Mari Nagata

Professor at Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics, JAPAN Ph.D. (Osaka University) Main research theme; Private International Law, International Civil Procedure Main Publications; Co-Author: MATSUOKA, Hiroshi eds., Kokusai-Kankei-Shihou-Nyumon (Basic Guide to Private International Law), 4th ed., 2019, Yuhikaku, NOMURA, Yoshiaki eds., Keesu-de-Manabu-Kokusai-Shihou (Private International Law with cases), 2nd ed., 2017, Horitsu-Bunka-Sha

Yuko Nishitani

Yuko Nishitani is a Professor of International Private and Business Law at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law in Japan since April 2015. Prior to this, she held a Chair at Tohoku University (1997-2007) and Kyushu University (2011-2015). Among various research stays abroad, she visited Duke Law School in the U.S. (2009/12) and the University of Brescia in (2007/08). She was also a Director of Studies (2004) and Lecturer (2011) at the Hague Academy of International Law. After completing her undergraduate and master studies at Kyoto University, she did research in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany (1994-1997). She earned a Ph.D. in July 1998 from the University of Heidelberg. Her Mancini und die Parteiautonomie im Internationalen Privatrecht was awarded the Lucia-und-Rolf-Serick-Preis 1998 and was published in 2000. Prof. Nishitani has been a visiting researcher in Milan and Florence (1999-2000), New York (2003-2004), Paris (2007-2008) and Hamburg (2009-2011). She also served as a Senior Legal Officer on Secondment at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (2004).

Her area of interest is private international law, international business law, international civil procedure law, comparative law, and family and successions law. She is currently doing research on several topics, particularly on globalisation and legal pluralism, the objectives and meaning of uniform law, cultural identity of individuals in private international family law, and the autonomy of children in family law.

Knut Benjamin Pissler

Prof. Dr. iur., M.A. (Sinology). Head of the China Unit, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg since 2002. Professor on Chinese law at the University of Göttingen since 2017. Founding member of the European China Law Studies Association, member in the board of directors of the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association. Member in the advisory board of the German “Journal of Chinese Law” (Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht) and Co- editor of the German book series “Schriften zum Chinesischen Recht”.

Fieke van Overbeeke

Fieke is a legal counsel at the The Hague based ‘Internationaal Juridisch Instituut’ (www.iji.nl). This is an over a 100 years old knowledge centre for private international law and foreign law and mainly focusses at the one hand on providing legal assistance to judges, and other legal practitioners and at the other hand schooling and training activities. In December 2018 Fieke successfully defended her PhD thesis on social competition and conflict of laws in the European road transport sector at the University of Antwerp. Fieke has published many private international law oriented articles and is often invited to speak about this topic on places all over the world.

Clarisse von Wunschheim

Partner at Altenburger ; specializes in international and cross-cultural dispute resolution, in particular international arbitration and commercial mediation and with a focus on the European and Chinese market. Her main areas of practice include general law, agency and distribution, sales, joint ventures as well as other forms of foreign investment. Clarisse has been involved as counsel, mediator, arbitrator, as well as secretary to high profile arbitral tribunals in a multitude of arbitration proceedings under various rules including the ICC Rules, SCAI, Uncitral Rules, ICSID, CIETAC, DIS, VIAC, etc. Clarisse von Wunschheim is the head of the China Desk and the co-head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group

Dai Yokomizo

Professor of International Comparative law and Political Science at (Japan). Reserach interests : Conflicts of Law

Jun Zheng

Dr. Jun Zheng is former legal advisor at the ISDC. He currently delivers lecture on International Business Law for the LLM at the law faculty of the University of Fribourg Meanwhile, he works as an attorney as well as a Partner at the BIRT InternationalRestructuring. With a PhD in law from University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Master’s degree in law in China, Jun’s research interests mainly focus on Private International Law, International Arbitration Law, International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law. He is the author of an academic book in EU competition law, several papers on private international law and comparative law, and was an editor of ISDC’s Newsletter. Jun is a member of the European Association of Private International Law, the China Society of Private International Law and Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce. In the past years, he has provided several legal reports/opinions on a variety of legal matters in private international law, comparative and public international law to governments, research institutes, international organizations and law firms. As an attorney, he has helped his clients with cross-border restructurings, M&A, international arbitration law, comparative family law, particularly in matters regarding the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, international arbitral awards as well as foreign notarial deeds in both China and Switzerland.